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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age: 75 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 1
Died: 1882
Died: March 24
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How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.
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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
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The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.
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The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark
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Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.
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With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!
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This will be a great day in our history the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!
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Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.
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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
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Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!
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Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The day is dark and cold and dreary it rains, and the wind is never weary.
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O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.
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